Evidence for a High-Pressure Isostructural Transition in Nitrogen

We observed an isostructural phase transition in the solid nitrogen λ-N₂ at approximately 50 GPa accompanied by anomalies in lattice parameters, atomic volume and Raman vibron modes. The anomalies are ascribed to a slight reorientation of the nitrogen molecules, which does not seem to affect the monoclinic symmetry(space group p2_1/c). Our ab initio calculations further confirm the phenomena, and suggest an optimized structure for the λ-N₂ phase. In addition, a ne...     

Raman scattering from highly-stressed anvil diamond

The high-frequency edge of the first-order Raman mode of diamond reflects the stress state at the culet of anvil, and is often used for the pressure calibration in diamond anvil cell(DAC) experiments. Here we point out that the high-frequency edge of the diamond Raman phonon corresponds to the Brillouin zone(BZ) center Γ point as a function of pressure. The diamond Raman pressure gauge relies on the stability of crystal lattice of diamond under high stress. Upon the diamond anvil occurs failure under the uniaxial stress(197 GPa), the loss of intensity of the first-order Raman phonon and a stressdependent broad Raman band centered at 600 cm^-1 are observed, which is associated with a strain-induced local mode corresponding to the BZ edge phonon of the L1 transverse acoustic phonon branch.     

K2OsO2(OH)4低温拉曼光谱研究

本工作获得了低温下锇酸钾K₂OsO₂(OH)₄的拉曼光谱,并对其声子行为进行了研究。在低温下,K₂OsO₂(OH)₄的拉曼光谱信噪比和展宽都得到改善,由晶胞收缩引起的晶体场扰动使位于高波段的ν₁模分裂为ν′₁和ν″₁两个振动模;而晶体中氢键体系取向的重定向行为使ν₂模在低温下发生了不连续变化。     

High-pressure Raman study of osmium and rhenium up to 200 GPa and pressure dependent elastic shear modulus C44

High-pressure Raman scattering from hexagonal close-packed (HCP) metals Os and Re have been extended up to 200 GPa, and the pressure-dependent shear modulus C₄₄ has been deduced from the Raman-active mode E_2g, which is generated from the adjacent vibration of atoms in hexagonal planes, providing the valuable information about the elastic properties for HCP metals under high pressure. Combined with the available data of HCP metals from previous works, a further study indicates that the $C_{44}^\prime/C_{44}$ ratio would be close to a constant value, 0.01, with increasing atomic number of metals. The results obtained from high-pressure Raman scattering will allow us to probe the elastic anisotropy of the HCP metals at very high pressure.